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Third-order optical nonlinearities of near-infrared dyes

  • Zhifei Dai*
  • , Xiuli Yue
  • , Bixian Peng
  • , Qiguang Yang
  • , Xuchun Liu
  • , Peixian Ye
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Beijing Forestry University
  • CAS - Institute of Physics

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Abstract

Near-infrared dyes - di- and tri-indocarbocyanine dyes and nickel dithiolenes - were synthesized and their third-order optical nonlinearities in solutions were investigated by using the degenerate four-wave mixing technique. Large third-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities with γ values of up to 10-29 esu were observed. The γ value of the indocarbocyanine dyes increases with increase of conjugation length of the polymethine chain. The central ring structure in the chromophore lowers the γ value of the indocarbocyanine dyes. With change of the substituents on the benzene ring an increase in γ value is observed for all the asymmetric nickel dithiolenes. The order of increase of nonlinear hyperpolarizability is as follows: H<Cl<CH3<C2H5<CH(CH 3)2.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9-12
Number of pages4
JournalChemical Physics Letters
Volume317
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Jan 2000
Externally publishedYes

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